Word: basse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enthusiasm with the way in which director G. Wallace Woodworth '24 has prepared the 100-voice Harvard Radcliffe Glee Club for Reach's Magnificent." Blistering the Glee Clubs as solo sits are contralto since Albert, who has sung under Serge Koussevitsky, to nor Hugh Cuenod, soprano Eleanor Davis, and bass Paul Tibbetts...
Holmes started his life of variety at the age of eight, when he learned to play the violin. He concentrated in languages at Harvard, was a bass drummer (a difficult instrument on which to achieve eminence) in the Band under Leroy Anderson, and was president of Pierian Sodality. Since then, with a little time out for graduate work in music, the beaming, popular leader has been simultaneously conductor of the Wellesley, Radcliffe, and Harvard Orchestras, and director of the Wellesley Concert series. He has taught classes in music appreciation, acted as graduate advisor of Pierian, and has been an instructor...
...merely borrowed the tune of a Rabelaisian old ditty called The Tailor's Boy, and given it new lyrics. The teaser: Grean's storytelling lyrics never do specify what "the thing" is; they just pause while Singer Phil Harris suggestively waits for three resounding booms of the bass drum. Sample...
What in the world was the thing? Pop music fans didn't care, so long as they could come in with the bass drum...
...lucky when, on a visit to Australia last year, he ran across a third and most unusual case A wiry, freckled, 50-year-old seaman named Bergman had been left with only two feet of jejunum and duodenum. He worked on a soot-grimed freighter pitching and rolling across Bass Strait between Melbourne and Tasmania. Althausen and Melbourne's Dr. Ronald Doig made one interesting discovery in studying the sailor: it made no difference to his two feet of small intestine whether he got predigested or ordinary food. Says Althausen: It proved to be 'just as good...